- Jabberwock on Syfy, starred Tahmoh Penikett (Dollhouse, Battlestar Galactica, Mortal Kombat: Legacy web series) who led a relatively unknown cast that was directed by Steven R. Monroe (I Spit on Your Grave).
Jabberwock* is produced by American World Pictures. *(The movie name is Jabberwock, not Jabberwocky as a few sites out there mistakenly call it.)
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The TV movie opens with two men on their horses that come to a watering hole, hoping for water, but the water isn’t too safe to drink. One of them talks about a great winged monster that terrorized the region sometime in the past and the first one laughs.
A very sudden thunderstorm erupts and they dash away from the water, but a poorly devised visual effect of lightning strikes hit an egg-shaped rock, hatching an itty-bitty winged beast which grows to full size within about a minute and then goes off to hunt our two poor victims. One gets away, forcing him to have to live even longer throughout the movie.
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Mortal Kombat: Legacy Web Series
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I’ve been seeing the headlines about the online series, Mortal Kombat: Legacy, but I didn’t pursue it. I presumed a few different things that didn’t promote my following up on the news. Today I was pulled in and checked out the first 7 episodes of this online series.
At first, without reading into it, I presumed this was an iTunes thing because, well, iTunes has many cool things. But instead, I found it on YouTube. (This makes it a Cinema Static YouTube pick!)
I ‘tuned’ into the first episode of Mortal Kombat: Legacy, titled “Ep. 1 – Jax, Sonya and Kano (Part 1).”
My second surprise was the cast that I was presented with. I was expecting this to be an indie kind of project with friends of the creators, AKA, potential non-name cast. Something that we usually see in these kinds of things. (That’s not a bad thing… it’s just what it is.)
Again, WRONG! First minute or two I was presented with actor faces that I knew from television, and subsequent episodes also had familiar faces. Familiar faces from past genre projects!
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